I don't write very well...I have the tendency to jump around and my spelling sucks. I should probably be using my iPhone for this since it had spell check. So I ask you to hang in there and read though this and if anyone finds themselves interested in this at all lease feel free to contact me personally or on here. So here is a little about me...maybe this will help you to understand where it is I'm coming from and who knows,maybe you yourself can relate. I'm forty two and I'm in a dead end job and basically I'm sick and tired of playing this game. Straight out of high school I took a job with Maytag Refrigeration. I had 15 year put in and then one morning I walked into work and noticed a bunch of loud speakers set up. I knew what was to come couldn't be good news...not after accepting the last contract which still to this day I believe the company really thought we would turn down. That morning I found out I had one year left with the job I had grown to love because of the people I worked with every day. Lost...the friends,good pay and very good benefits. After that I bounced around for a couple years till I found then job I currently have. The pay isn't as good as what I was making at Maytag but it isn't bad. The benefits...well they suck. The insurance is high along with no company retirement unless you can afford 401k. So I went into work a couple Friday's ago just like any other day. The difference was on this day I found out I had been making less than the week before because of a adjustment in the pay scale. So while I lost .50 per hour others gained .50 per hour. Then on top of that insurance went up. So between the two I'm now bringing home around $100 less a month. What this all comes down to is that basically I'm sick and tired of getting screwed over by the powers to be. Anymore it really seems pointless to live your life the way society wants you to live. I'm tired of being just a little pawn in the game. Its not that I can't make it on my own it's that with the way things are today and without any light at the end of the tunnel...none that I can see anyways. I've been doing a lot of thinking about some things. What I hope to do is find some people on here that would be interested in a type of communal living situation. A situation that would allow all to chip in on rent,food and basically just your every day living expenses. Maybe this would help some people struggling every day just trying to get by. Maybe this would help someone stuck in a situation with a job their not happy with but they don't have a choice but to stay in it because of just basically needing to survive every day. With this I am open to locations. A friend and I are considering Colorado as a good location. And yes the legalization of Marijuana does play into this. So I guess from here it's up to you. If you think that this is something that you might be interested in then drop me a line and lets shoot the shit and share some ideas. Hopefully I can take this and turn it from a dream into a reality to make someones life a little easier or more pleasant. Hit me up people and help me turn this thing into something beautiful and amazing ! I know I can't be the only person who would like to be around more like minded people on a regular basis.
I could copy and paste your thread, because it sounds pretty much like my life to this point. I hope Virginia is next for the legalization of Marijuana. I would like to exchange some ideas with you sometime freethinkingcpl@yahoo.com good luck Jim
Don't get me wrong...this isn't just about being able to use drugs at free will. All thought to a point I believe drug testing is an invasion of a persons privacy and doesn't solve anything at all. I mean personal I would much rather have a "pothead " working for me than a hardcore alcoholic any day of the week. What this is really about is like minded people having a place where they belong. They are free to live life as they choose and don't have to worry about how they are going to pay the rent, power or water bill this month. Or do I put food on the table or pay the mortgage. I want to find a way a group if people can come together and coexist amongst each other and all benefit from it. Man...I know it's possible for this to happen I just need to find some others that feel the same way. So come on people...let's all work together and not just make life a little less worry free but enjoyable. I do believe we all not only deserve this in life but its just the way life is suppose to be.
